The objectives of the Green Investment Scheme (GIS) Project are to reduce CO2 emissions and emissions of air pollutants, to increase the use of renewable energy sources and to improve energy efficiency in the residential sector of the Czech Republic. ... Подробнее +The objectives of the Green Investment Scheme (GIS) Project are to reduce CO2 emissions and emissions of air pollutants, to increase the use of renewable energy sources and to improve energy efficiency in the residential sector of the Czech Republic. Investments in energy efficiency in the country's housing sector, including new passive family houses and apartment buildings are not expected to cause significant adverse environmental and social impacts. They are expected to have a net positive effect due to the incremental reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Less energy-efficient houses will be replaced with more efficient ones and part of the new housing construction in CZ will be more energy efficient than the baseline. As the investments would decrease consumption of fossil fuels (brown coal and natural gas), there will be reduction of emissions of other pollutants like PM10, SOx and NOx from small combustion sources as permanent and cumulative positive impact. Local ambient air quality becomes a serious problem in many municipalities and areas and the GIS Program will contribute to the better local air quality. Potential adverse environmental impacts are summarized as follows: a) dust and noise due to construction; b) generation of construction wastes, accidental spillage of machine oil, lubricants, etc; c) pollution and/or changes of hydrological regime of the ground waters due to the impacts of heat pumps operating within deep strata of ground water; and d) biomass installations might cause local pressures on biomass sources as the markets with fuel wood are partially local. These impacts are minor and easily manageable during project implementation.
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